How to Separate an Image from its Background
The main difficulty with trying to separate an image from its background is that there are pixels which cover an area of the picture which is partly foreground and partly background...
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Blurred Edges
1. Find any image you'd like to use. Make sure your image is NOT in the background layer. Make sure your background is set to the color you'd like the image to blend into(ex. background color of your webpage). 2. Select the Rectangular Marquee tool. Create a square in the photo. Let enough r...
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Photoshop Interface
This tutorial, geared towards Photoshop novices, gives an overview of the many interfaces in Photoshop. You will practice working with the toolbox, palettes, the option bar, and tool presets. Toolbox Photoshop's toolbox contains all the tools available to you. The toolbox contains fly-out or s...
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Taking Shortcuts
Let's take a looks at our Palette Hotkeys. Pressing these will help find or hide some of the palettes and save some clutter in your workspace.
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The burn and dodge tool tutorial
I find these tools very useful in alot of ways. Here is just one way you can use these to to add some detail into a design. I started off with a simple orb, not really that shaded or anything. ...
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Using The Pen Tool
Some people find the pen tool to be a fairly hard tool to use. In this tutorial I am going to show you some of the tips+tricks to using the pen tool, as this tool plays an important part in creating images. The pen tool is sometimes used for selecting certain pa...
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Polygon Lasso Tool
1) Open a new file, around 500 x 400pixels, with a transparent background. 2) make a square. 3) Click on the polygon eraser tool 4) select a region around your square that you want to cut out. 5) click the delete button on your keyboard **For some people you must rasterize...
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Measure Tool
I learned this really simple technique from my cousin, so many ThX (as always) to him, cause it saved me a lot of work. 1. The whole idea of this tutorial is to show how to straighten a crooked image. You probably don't have one, so open a random image and go t...
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Working with spot color channels
Spot colors can be used with CMYK or Multichannel documents intended for print to add additional colors, create "bump plates," and to control varnishes. They can add a bunch to your printing bill. Or they...
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Slices
Before we move on to the next subject, I want to talk a littl bit more about slices and the slice tool in Photoshop. Last week we sliced up our web page into bits and pieces that we could place into our HTML tables for our web site. We used Image Ready to make slices out of guides. What happens if y...
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